Miss America 1944 Stops Intruder while Armed

Venus Ramey, 82, the crowned Miss America of 1944 who was awarded this title for her singing, dancing, and comedic talents proves that she is more than a 1940s pin-up girl.

On her farm in Kentucky, she shot the tires of a man who was thieving on her property. The man said that he'd leave, but she shot his tires so he couldn't leave.

The man was arrested for trespassing, but Venus Ramey proves to be more than a picture of a young women on a B-17 during World War II.

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Miss USA Scandals

The Miss USA 2007 Competition is underway, as the 51 contestants are dwindled down to 15.

The most interesting events however, aren't the bikini competitions. The pageant has been known for its crowned scandals. For example, the current Miss USA Tara Connor is in rehab for alcohol abuse and previous contestants have been disqualified for pregnancy or racy behavior.

Hopefully, no hopeful girl will have her crown taken away this year.

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Serial Lingerie Thief

A Japanese construction worker has been arrested for stealing over 4,000 pairs of women's underwear, everything from pantyhose to panties. Mmm, if only I had an underwear collection like that.

A picture is worth 1,000 words, as well as 4,000 pairs of underwear.

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Sundance Film Fest

The Annual Sundance Film Festival kicked off its 26th year yesterday in Park City, Utah. The festival, founded by Robert Redford in 1981, runs from January 18th-28th. It is known as one of the most important film festivals in the world, especially for American independent filmmakers who come to Park City in the hopes that their film will be "discovered", i.e. find a distributor.

Films like "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) and "Napolean Dynamite" (2004) owe a huge chunk of their box-office success to the fact that they were well-received at Sundance.

There are also prizes to be won: the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for documentary and dramatic films, both international and domestic. Past winners include "Hustle and Flow" (Audience Award Dramatic, 2005), "Whale Rider" (Audience Award World Cinema, 2003), and "Girlfight" (Grand Jury Prize Dramatic, 2000).

Sundance is also famous for its celebrity draw, as big name stars flock to the tiny mountain town to promote their films, support their movie-star friends' films, or simply soak up the rampant party atmosphere and do some skiing (cue Paris Hilton).

This year's films include "Chapter 27", starring Jared Leto; "Hounddog", Dakota Fanning's first indie picture; and "Grace is Gone", with John Cusack.

I can't wait to get the scoop on which films to watch, which films to miss, and which stars partied harder than all the rest!

FHM Folds

For some it is the end of an era, an era of sexy cover models and pin-up model centerfolds.

Earlier this month, the British publisher Emap announced the end of FHM, a magazine with a circulation of 1.25 million as reported in Socialite Life.

The sudden announcement was made after a 19.7 percent drop in advertisement in the first 11 months of the year.

One million-plus readers or not, the trends were clear. What had been a white-hot niche in publishing has gone cold. Even Maxim, the circulation leader in the men's category with a rate base of 2.5 million, is down 5 percent in advertising pages this year from the year before, and the lucrative newsstand sales are down more than 200,000 in the last three years.

There's no telling how this will effect the upscale men's magazines like GQ and Esquire which had shifted to compete with these so-called "Lad Magazines". One thing's for sure, the king of men's magazines, however unfortunate, Playboy, isn't going anywhere.

Bodies On Display

It might not be the best idea for a dinner date (as I found out a few days ago in NYC) but if you've got a bit of scientific intrigue, this is a must see.

BODIES … The Exhibition boasts (honestly) to be "a phenomenal look at the phenomena we call the human body. With educational relevance for all ages, this exhibition of real human specimens immerses visitors in the complexities of the human body, telling us the amazing story of ourselves with reverence and understanding."

I learned more than I had imagined... take your friends who smoke and show them what a smoker's lungs look like...that should do the trick.

Source: www.bodiestheexhibition.com

Need a change of scenery?

Check out these stunning and absolutely free Windows Vista desktop wallpapers. Use one as your new desktop image or download them all into one folder and make a custom slideshow screensaver with them. I have to say, it feels pretty good to get something for nothing, so have a look.

Still our favorite desktop of all time: DESKTOP EARTH!

Keeping your password safe on shared computers

Private university Carnegie Mellon has written up an interesting method for keeping your passwords safe from keyloggers at public computers.
The trick:
Between successive keys of the password we will enter random keys. In the spirit of chaffing and winnowing, the string that the keylogger receives will contain the password, but embedded in so much random junk that discovering it is infeasible.

Between successive keys of the password we will enter random keys. In the spirit of chaffing and winnowing, the string that the keylogger receives will contain the password, but embedded in so much random junk that discovering it is infeasible.

The idea is, for each character of your password you type, you also type several random characters in another field in your browser. Using this method, the authors demonstrate how a password like snoopy2 becomes spqmlainsdgsosdgfsodgfdpuouuyhdg2 in the eyes of a keylogger. Of the five keylogging programs tested, none of them captured the correct passwords when this method was employed.

Source: LifeHacker

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